When something wasn’t what it was meant to be….

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I’ve just read a story that made me laugh, so I’m looking for more…

Someone carried their camping chair to a festival, when on arrival realised it was a washing line.

Someone else recited the story of taking their swimming bag to school to find out they’d picked up their mum’s knitting bag.

Another recalled carrying a box with the windbreak in to the beach, only to find they’d taken a Christmas tree.

Please tell me more.

The story certainly cheered everyone up when my colleague got to the office and told us - she'd taken a photo of said feline stowaway in her backpack to show us - personally I would be delighted to have an unexpected cat in the office 😄

That's amazing!

Grabbed a cat food pouch instead of an exante (yogurt) pouch.

I was definitely in deficit that day.

A different thing but I read someone who owns a glamping/ campsite had a review from a guest of 2.5 out of 10 for 'bed comfort'. The guest had stayed in their own campervan!

These are brilliant 😁

I was punished as a child by naughtily drinking directly from the bottle in the fridge to finding that what I thought was pineapple juice was actually cold chicken stock.

When I was a lot younger I got terrible sun burn and so was laid in bed all blistered.

My mum was putting after sun on me every few hours and I thought the smell of it was a bit odd.

The after sun bottle was white with a blue lid. Problem was, so was the bottle of self tan also on the same shelf.

So I ended up with not just huge blisters, but orange huge blisters.

After she did say she thought the texture of that new after sun was a bit odd 😃

That reminds me of a late uncle. He had a free sample through the post but couldn’t understand why the shampoo didn’t lather - it was fabric conditioner.

During a seminar, I reached into my bag and pulled out a tissue…which I only realised was a sanitary towel when it was halfway to my face.

Not quite the same (maybe worse?) a friend was taking part in the Dublin City Marathon last year, he drove up from the country with his BiL in his sliders (don't ask!) & when they arrived & parked up he opened his gym bag to change into his runners... they weren't there just some smelly socks & some Under Armour 😆

This has reminded me of a post I read on MN years and years ago, where the poster had sneaked out with her best friend in the car for a cheeky smoke.

They’d bought fags and a can of deodorant to hide the smell - which the poster discovered was shaving foam when her friend blasted herself full in the face with it 😂😂😂

It must be over a decade since I read that and it still makes me snort 😂😂😀

Oh god that's worse than my vodka experience

Thanks @LunaNorth, that’s still cracking me up. And I am so sorry you lost your friend @Mumtobabyhavoc - but what a brilliant memory to have.
Great thread op.

In the early blissful days of our relationship, DP was feeling a bit under the weather. He didn’t feel like coffee so I lovingly offered him a cup of tea instead( I seldom drank tea, but I had some teabags)

When I gave it to him he had a few mouthfuls , thanked me and said he had had enough. It was only when I was clearing it away that I realised I had used one of the dried mixed herbs which used to come in little bags like tea bags.

They weren’t even very new….

The pond water

I was in a restaurant with family and carrying my baby on my hip while trying to reach for something in my bag. Contents went sprawling out of my bag and family and waiters bent to pick them up. A young male waiter handed me a tampon with my family all watching. Grim.

I did this exact thing too! We used to have a Tupperware jug type thing with a flip-up lid and it was sometimes used for storing fruit juice because the old style tear-open fruit juice cartons were a bit fiddly and messy. But also used for other liquids. As I found out.

Just a friendly FYI - Charity shops legally have to send anything that gets left in their doorway/on doorstep, to Landfill/Incinerator.

This has reminded me of another one.

Early morning, groggy, half-asleep on a grey morning - grabbed my toothbrush and tube from by the sink, squeezed and started to brush my teeth - a disgusting taste and weird slimy texture stopped me in my tracks. I had squeezed from a tube of 'Philip Kingsley Elasticizer' hair conditioner 🤮.

My sister had one of those jackets that has those velcro tabs on the sleeves and round the bottom at the back so you can tighten or loosen it. She noticed a few odd looks while walking to work. When she got there and took off her jacket she realised a pair of knickers had got stuck on one the velcro tabs at the back.
I laughed for a solid hour when she told me (so did her workmates) 30 years on I still laugh about it 😅

@Sethera I would be delighted to have an unexpected cat in the office 😄

Me too! It should definitely be a thing. Have you seen that video about the Cat who lives in a Home Depot store in the US? He has his own bed in a trolley and gets all the visiting Mice 🐭 🐈

Again not me but a friend of mine has a nightly show on a national braodcaster over here & a few months ago he carefully curated an hour long "The Specials" special (sorry!) so like you he picked up the worng bag & had to apologize profusely while playing "Ghost Town" (courtesy of a "Best of.." in his glovebox) he was more disappointed than anyone in fairness

All this happens so easily 😆

I’ve done that in reverse. Took vodka on a night out, and spent all night topping up our single vodka and cokes with water. I didn’t realise I’d taken the wrong bottle of ‘water’ until I got back home.

I picked up what I thought was apple pie from the fridge and put custard on it. It was quiche!

That kind of sounds like penance for all the times we've all topped up our parents drinks cabinet with water 😆

I have done this, but they'd all drunk masses the night before (I don't take sugar). Took most of a cup before anyone managed to decide it tasted funny, and they'd all drunk it and wanted a 2nd before they noticed I was putting in salt.

(@coldcallerbaiter your friend is not called Tracey, husband at the time Paul?)